The Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell

A Chaplain's Story
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-8203-4087-6
Verlag: University of Georgia Press

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 147 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

In 1861 young Joseph Twichell cut short his seminary studies to become a Union Army chaplain in New York's Excelsior Brigade. A middle-class New England Protestant, Twichell served for three years in a regiment manned mostly by poor Irish American Catholics. This selection of Twichell's letters to his Connecticut family will rank him alongside the Civil War's most literate and insightful firsthand chroniclers of life on the road, in battle, and in camp.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Twichell, Joseph Hopkins

Messent, Peter

Courtney, Steve

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Messent is a professor of modern American literature at the University of Nottingham. Steve Courtney, an independent scholar, has worked for nearly three decades as a journalist and has had several positions at the Hartford Courant.